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17/04/2015

Friday Night Dinner Commissioned For Fourth Series

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Friday Night Dinner, the award-winning Channel 4 comedy show, is to return for a forth series.

Big Talk Productions and Popper Pictures have been commissioned to produce a fourth series of the comedy for Channel 4, with Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal returning as the Goodman Family, and Mark Heap once again arriving unannounced as Jim.

In the new series, Jonny gets serious with a 'female', Adam injures Jonny after buttering the kitchen floor, Mum is forced to pretend that her mother has died, Dad invites a friend over who talks with his eyes closed, 'Horrible Grandma' returns for more horribleness, and a terrified Jim has to look after five dogs.

Friday Night Dinner is written and produced by Robert Popper, whose credits as a writer/producer/script editor include Look Around You, Peep Show, South Park, The Inbetweeners, Him & Her and The IT Crowd. He is also the author – as Robin Cooper – of the Timewaster Letters books.

He said: "I am verry hapy I am writin a new serries of Friday Niht Dinners for Chanel 4. I hop it wil be funy and that the peeples wil laurgh."

Channel 4's Deputy Head Of Comedy, Nerys Evans, added: "It's always a joy to welcome back the wonderfully doolally world of Friday Night Dinner, and series 4 looks set to be a real corker."

Friday Night Dinner is executive produced by Kenton Allen, Chief Executive of Big Talk Productions and Caroline Leddy.

www.channel4.com

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